Western District of Virginia Court Records

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia has jurisdiction over 52 counties in the western portion of the state and serves approximately 2.2 million residents. The Western District encompasses 60% of the land area of the Commonwealth. The District of Virginia was one of the original 13 judicial districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789. In 1871, the Western District was formed when the District of Virginia was divided into two districts.

The Western District currently has four United States District Judges and three United States Magistrate Judges. The Western District is divided into the following seven divisions: the Abingdon Division, covering Bland, Buchanan, Grayson, Russell, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, and Wythe counties; the Big Stone Gap Division, covering Dickenson, Lee, Scott, and Wise counties; the Charlottesville Division, covering Albemarle, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, Orange, and Rappahannock counties; the Danville Division, covering Charlotte, Halifax, Henry, Patrick, and Pittsylvania counties; the Harrisonburg Division, covering Augusta, Bath, Clarke, Frederick, Highland, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren counties; the Lynchburg Division, covering Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, and Rockbridge counties; and the Roanoke Division, covering Alleghany, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, and Roanoke counties.

The W.D. Va. has a courthouse location in each division. The Abingdon Division is located at 180 W. Main Street, Abingdon, VA 24210, and can be reached by calling (276) 628-5116. The Big Stone Gap Division is based out of the U.S. Courthouse at 322 E. Wood Ave., Big Stone Gap, VA 24219, and can be reached by calling (276) 523-3557. The Charlottesville Division is located in the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at 255 W. Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902, and can be reached by calling (434) 296-9284. The Danville Division is located at 700 Main Street, Danville, VA 24541, and can be reached by calling (434) 793-7147.

The Harrisonburg Division is located in the U.S. Courthouse at 116 N. Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, and can be reached by calling (540) 434-3181. The Lynchburg Division is based out of the U.S. Courthouse at 1101 Court Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504, and can be reached by calling (434) 847-5722. The Roanoke Division is located in the Richard H. Poff Federal Building at 210 Franklin Road S.W., Suite 540, Roanoke, VA 24011, and can be reached by calling (540) 857-5100.

The Clerk of Court is Laura A. Austin. The Clerk of Court’s office can be reached at each division by calling the phone numbers listed above.

The Chief District Judge is the Hon. Michael F. Urbanski, located at the Richard H. Poff Federal Building in Suite 350. You can reach the Chief Judge’s Chambers by calling (540) 857-5124.

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia is Christopher R. Kavanaugh, who previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for 14 years. The U.S. Attorney’s Main Office for the W.D. Va. has a mailing address at P.O. Box 1709, Roanoke, VA 24008. You can reach the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Roanoke by calling (540) 857-2250 or faxing (540) 857-2614.

Locating the court records you need for the Western District of Virginia from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, can be cost-prohibitive, grueling, and time-intensive.

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Not only does PACER charge for searching court cases in the Western District, but PACER also charges excessive fees for downloading court documents. PACER claims that document fees are 10 cents per page and capped at $3, but actually charges unlimited fees for access to court transcripts. PACER also forces users into paying additional fees if they want to download the same document multiple times. In stark contrast, if UniCourt has a document you need from Virginia Western District in our CrowdSourced Library™, you can download it for free as many times as you want without any extra charges.

In addition to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, UniCourt gives you access to court records for the other U.S. District Court in Virginia, the Eastern District of Virginia. UniCourt also provides you with bulk access to all federal court records within Virginia, such as cases filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia. Beyond federal court records across the Commonwealth of Virginia, UniCourt further provides you with access to Virginia state court records for all of the counties included in the Western District: Roanoke County, Danville County, Albemarle County, Shenandoah County, and Charlotte County.

UniCourt’s industry-leading Legal Data APIs provide Enterprise users with on-demand, bulk access to structured data from Virginia state and federal courts. UniCourt collects, organizes, standardizes, and normalizes court data from all federal courts and makes it easily accessible via our APIs as a part of our Legal Data as a Service (LDaaS) offerings for business development, competitive intelligence, litigation strategy, and docket management.